Capitol

January 02, 2018

Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights invites citizens statewide to reach out to their lawmakers NOW and have a conversation focused on changing state vaccine law. MPVR champions vaccine rights legislation that will make parents the final authority over their children's healthcare, especially concerning vaccines.

Statewide Regional Director, Cheryl Peeples, will be scheduling meetings for you to meet with your lawmakers Tuesday and Wednesday, January 9th & 10th, when we will have Emmy Award winning investigative medical journalist, Del Bigtree with us at the capitol. Bigtree and his non-profit, Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), have done a thorough investigation on the state of vaccine safety in the United States. The shocking result of this investigation was presented to the heads of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in a private meeting arranged by the Trump Administration in May of 2017.

We are asking you to schedule a meeting with your lawmaker to meet with MPVR leadership on your behalf - even if you are unable to come to the Capitol Tuesday or Wednesday. Please contact Cheryl to schedule meetings. Message Cheryl on Facebook here or send an email with the subject line "Leg Apt + (lawmakers last name)" to chpeeples@aol.com

MPVR leadership and Del will also be hosting the Black Caucus and Conservative Coalition luncheons on Wednesday, January 10th, and Thursday, January 11th. Your generous donations afford us the opportunity to cater their lunch and present to them during these two luncheons.

Donations can be made via PayPal to msparentalrights@hotmail.com or by using the Donate link found at the top right corner of this site. We depend on your donations; no amount is too small!

Thursday, January 11th is the day we need our base to show up! We have booked the capitol for the entire day. MPVR will have tables set up in the Capitol Rotunda and will hold a press conference on the Second Floor Rotunda that morning (time TBA) where we need numbers and will have speakers that you will not want to miss. The press conference will be followed by events on the Capitol South Steps that will be announced as plans are finalized.

Please plan to be present Thursday, and regardless of whether you are able to attend Tuesday or Wednesday to meet with your lawmaker. We still need you to set up meetings. MPVR leadership will meet with your lawmaker on your behalf, but we MUST have constituents asking for these meetings and laying the groundwork. Please work and network with other members within your regional chapter facebook groups to make this happen NOW.

This is it.The time is now.This is YOUR chance to make a difference.Our lawmakers don't know how we feel until you tell them.They are not convinced until they get plenty of calls.Those representing the medical establishment and their trade organizations ARE speaking to your lawmakers.They MUST hear from you. Today is the day. Please pick up the phone. We are out of time. Email is not going to be effective right now. Please call today and continue calling until you speak with your lawmaker. That may look like multiple calls a day. We are out of time and our children need you.

Look for details forthcoming that MPVR will be sharing via social media (Facebook & @mpvrights on Instagram), email as well as text concerning our event and session as well as information to arm you with what you need to be an effective advocate for medical freedom. Find, follow and RSVP on our event page here.

July 17, 2017

MPVR leadership was feet on the ground busting it to bring the film Vaxxed to Mississippi. The "Vaxxed Mississippi" Facebook group was formed and grew to over 1200 members in less than 24 hours...it was clear that the people of Mississippi wanted Vaxxed across the state, but we were met with dead ends and censorship as we worked to bring the film to theaters in state.

MaryJo, Melisha and I had, with great anticipation, met Del Bigtree (the special visitor in my shared post above) when we attended the World Health Summit in Atlanta a month earlier. Del listened as we shared of the restrictive, oppressive climate in MS. He sympathized and encouraged us that we would find a way to bring Vaxxed to our state.

It can be difficult for the people of Mississippi to remain positive in this effort...Del taking the time to pop into our group in May of 2016 with encouragement was quite the moral boost for our grassroots base.

MPVR ultimately succeeded in bringing the film to Mississippi. We sold out theaters in key cities across the state, and we didn't stop there.

Despite the Mississippi State Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics along with some paternalistic doctors lobbying our lawmakers and medical professionals NOT to see the film, we had critical and freethinkers in both categories attend screenings.

Since then, we've hosted the Vaxxed Nation Tour/ We Are Vaxxed Team + Bus throughout the state and at our state Capitol twice where stories of Vaccine injury and death were filmed one after another with not enough time for all of them to be told.

You can view many of the recorded stories collected from Mississippi here.

Polly & Del speak at the Capitol, September 2016

After several successful summer screenings, we hosted a sold out a Vaxxed screening with a Q&A panel following with both Del and Polly during their first visit in September of 2016.

In November, several of us traveled out to Austin, Texas to attend the Vaxxed Homecoming event and visit the The Autism Trust Austin where Jonathan and Polly welcomed us into their home.

We had the great privilege of hosting Del in Mississippi during session this year to lobby with us and speak to both the Conservative Coalition and the Black Caucus at our state Captiol. MaryJo, Del and I "sat" across from a pediatrician and the Chairman of the MS State Board of Health on SuperTalk Mississippi Radio with Paul Gallo.

While Del was here lobbying, we had a Vaxxed showing in Hattiesburg hosed by MPVR and MS Healthcare Professionals for Informed Consent where the audience was primarily made up of medical professionals. That was followed by a Q&A with MPVR, MS-HPIC leadership and Del.

After session, MPVR leadership and activists went to Washington D.C. to lobby at our Nation's Capitol. We met with each MS congressman and senator and/or his aids to discuss corruption in the CDC, hand deliver binders of Mississippi vaccine injury stories and by divine appointment, spoke with the Chairman of government reform and oversight committee, Congressman Jason Chaffetz for several minutes between our meetings.

Wrap up live video from the U.S. Capitol following a full day of lobbying

During the Vaxxed Buses more recent second visit to Mississippi, we were again on Supertalk Radio with the brilliant Dr. Suzanne Humphries on The JT Show.

The bus collected stories in both Hattiesburg and Jackson where parents gathered to recognize and observe those affected by vaccine injury and death and to participate in an organized prayer walk around our state's Capitol.

MPVR is grateful for the movement the film VaxXed and those behind it have generated across the nation and especially for the attention and support they have given us here in Mississippi. We are thankful for and appreciate our grassroots base for supporting and growing our effort to advocate truth and champion vaccine rights legislation here in Mississippi. Mostly, we are committed and faithful in fighting this spiritual battle.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. -Galatians 6:9

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. -Ephesians 6:12

IF YOU ARE ON FACEBOOK - FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE POSTED IN YOUR REGIONAL GROUPS. Constituents of these leaders will have detailed instructions forthcoming there. If you have not joined your regional group, please fill out our membership form here. Once you join your secured regional Facebook group, please be sure you have all notifications on. _____________

You can find our 2017 Talking Points here for printing to have in front of you when you contact your own lawmakers to ask for support.

Lindey and I will be updating and sending out calls to action in the coming days. Please be checking email as well as our Facebook groups and website www.MPVR.org

As always, talk about this issue everywhere you go and help us grow our numbers!

January 02, 2017

We are so excited for the opportunities before us over the next two weeks!

As you may know, MPVR is having Del Bigtree flown in from California to meet with our legislators!

Del will be at the capitol on Tuesday, Jan 10th and Wednesday, Jan 11th. Del is the 2x Emmy Award winning medical investigative journalist and producer of the daytime talk show, The Doctors. More importantly, he is the producer of the the documentary film, Vaxxed: From Cover Up to Catastrophe.

If you would like to set up an appointment between Del and your legislator, please let me know ASAP. He is phenomenally gifted at communicating with lawmakers and we are fortunate to have him.

PLEASE make the most of this opportunity. He will be available both Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 9 until 11, both afternoons for about an hour after 1:00, and at 4:00 on Wednesday. Anyone in the Jackson area who can make it both days, try to utilize Tuesday morning. Please send me a private FB message, call, or shoot me a text.

December 15, 2016

Our tees serve as great conversation starters and educate the mom behind you in the grocery store checkout line! We would LOVE to see you all wearing your Official MPVR Tees when we have our 2017 MPVR Day at the Capitol with Vaxxed producer Del Bigtree! This is going to be an exciting eventful year. Please don't wait to order if you want yours in time for Mississippi's 2017 Legislative Session which starts just after the holidays!

Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights (MPVR.org) champions state and federal laws that advocate the basic human right of parents to be the final authority in their children’s healthcare, including vaccinations. We are focused on defending the freedom of informed voluntary consent.

This campaign will run until Dec. 23 through Teespring and acts as a fundraiser for MPVR.

March 09, 2016

For too long, parents in Mississippi have lived under the most oppressive vaccine laws and policies in the nation,. We have been lethargic and un-engaged with our lawmakers allowing the drug lobbies and those who profit from vaccines to take advantage of vulnerable young mothers and little children.

It is wrong for an agenda-driven government agency to be granted power to systematically supersede the advice of our children's doctors. Yet, in Mississippi many families and doctors testify that the Mississippi State Department of Health has habitually denied doctors' medical exemptions for vaccine vulnerable children. This inflicts great hardship on MS families, yet it is fiercely defended today by those same lobbies who put it in place years ago.

The balances in our system that should stand between corporate power and our infants and children do not exist in MS's childhood vaccination program. The government is not our children's pediatrician. The days of complacency in Mississippi are OVER. We are fighting back and we are not going away!

On March 2, 2016 Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights gathered at the Mississippi State Capitol to Rally and lobby for HB938 that will repair Mississippi's broken medical exemption process. Activist and parents across Mississippi demonstrated, using cardboard testimonials, the hardship of living under the most restrictive medical exemption vaccine law in the nation.

March 08, 2016

HB938 repairs our broken medical exemption process. It returns power to our doctors without coercion and erroneous oversight of government bureaucrats at the state health department.

No other state in the nation's medical exemption process looks like Mississippi's. The MSDH has behaved recklessly with the lives of our children, denying our doctor's requests following vaccine injury (via phone rather than in writing so there is no paper trail) while they lie, telling our legislators they accept all requests.

We are able to provide any legislator who is interested with proof that this is indeed what is happening. The people of MS desperately need lawmakers to pass 938 without amendments so that our doctors may practice medicine without the thumb of the MSDH in their backs.

This would only bring us in line with the rest of the nation. As things are now, we do NOT have a medical exemption, but rather...a political one.

Mississippians across the state continually reach out for help in securing a medical exemption they desperately need and deserve for their injured or vaccine susceptible children. Many others have fled our state.

There is NOTHING controversial about giving Doctors the right to practice medicine as they see fit. EVERY OTHER STATE, all of which are healthier than MS, has exercised this very thing for decades. It is time, Mississippi. Let's make this happen!

What HB938 WILL do:

• Enforce the current MS law which says any duly licensed physician can write a medical exemption for a child.

• Repair and enforce Mississippi's broken medical exemption process by restoring the authority of physicians to issue a letter of medical exemption to the schools on behalf of a vaccine vulnerable child, without coercion, erroneous oversight, and interference of government bureaucrats at the State Department of Health who have NEVER EXAMINED THE CHILD.

• Prevent agenda-driven government bureaucrats from putting particularly vulnerable children at risk by requiring those children to be vaccinated against their physician's best advice, as is the current and habitual practice of the MSDH. • Bring MS's unreasonably restrictive medical exemption laws more closely in line to that of 49 other healthier states. Almost all other states not only allow religious and/or personal belief exemptions, but they also allow out-of-state physicians, and nurse practitioners, to write medical exemptions to schools, without bureaucratic intervention. These laws in other states have been in place for decades and they work well. • Require a physician to examine the child before writing a letter of exemption. (Why is it that some are ok with a bureaucrat who has NEVER SEEN A CHILD denying a medical exemption, yet are freaking out over a physician who HAS examined the child granting one?) • Create a more family friendly Mississippi for those who are living here and moving here from other states. Many educated and professional, tax paying families are leaving Mississippi. Others won't move here due to our overbearing vaccine law. • Give MS children access to true medical exemptions, rather than MS's current “political exemption” which requires legislators get involved to exhort MSDH to honor physician's letters of exemption for medical reasons. • Save money by eliminating bureaucratic rubber stamping of physician's requests for exemption. If MSDH is granting all requests as they say, taxpayers don't need the added expense of including them in the process. • Be GOOD for MS children who are currently discriminated against and prevented from attending school in Mississippi, while they, in fact, would be permitted in any school outside of Mississippi. What HB938 will NOT do: • Not allow parents to claim religious or personal belief waivers to the vaccine schedule. • Not result in massive numbers of children that have no vaccines. Currently, the exemption rate nationwide, including religious and personal belief exemptions, is 1.7%, which is the lowest in history for the most vaccines given in history. • Not create an environment where children in schools will be “exposed” by sitting next to a partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, vaccine-vulnerable child. Common sense tells us that missing a shot does not equal infection. Exposure simply cannot occur in the absence of infection.

October 12, 2015

GOP presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, has served as Chairman of the Board of Vaccinogen, Inc. The initial comment deleted from Carson's Facebook page by Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights Co-Director, Lindey Magee, was in response to a woman who stated: "There are no aborted fetus cells in vaccines!"

"_____ you are WRONG! The ingredients, including fetal cell lines are right there on the CDC dot gov site in the ingredients! It is reckless for you to state something so matter-of-factly when you obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about.

For the sake of my sanity, I highly recommend that you do your own research and quit relying on what main stream media reports in between the 4 pharmaceutical commercials during each commercial break.

Let me make it easy for you.

• The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reasons from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.

• The WI-38 human diploid cell line was derived by L. Hayflick from normal embryonic (3-month gestation) lung tissue of a female.

• The rubella vaccine currently used in the United States and in most countries was developed after an American researcher at the Wistar Institute cultured rubella virus from a fetus harvested from the elective abortion of a mother infected with rubella. This vaccine is called RA 27/3 because the rubella virus was isolated from the 27th aborted fetus sent to the Wistar Institute in the 1964 rubella outbreak.

To see the actual ingredients and substances used during the manufacturing process check out this CDC link.

You can learn more about which vaccines contain human protein and DNA here.

Lindey reposted the above reply upon seeing it had been deleted. She also posted the following comment, using Dr. Carson's own quotes regarding mandatory vaccination to hold him accountable for what she saw as placating.

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When she was deleted so were all her comments and replies. (click on image for full size pop-up:)

Vaughn Blaylock sums this up well:

"Dr. Ben Carson supports mandatory vaccines. That is, to say, that he supports the right of government to force you to take your meds, regardless of your petty objections. This stems from an obvious belief that your government owns at least part of you, and that it certainly owns your children. He has said repeatedly that he believes that 'No parent has the right to refuse a vaccination for their child.'

When a crew of us got together and began to debate him on the subject in a respectful tone, our allies from all over the country descended upon Carson's Facebook page in support. Dr. Carson's response to all of this was to backpedal, and claim that he does support an exemption for parents, when, according to his own statements, he clearly does not.

Dr. Ben Carson served on the board of Vaccinogen. Although the existence of the 'Vaccine Court' - the Office of the Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, having been established in 1986 by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act- is no secret, Dr. Carson refuses to acknowledge the thousands upon thousands of children and adults who have been seriously harmed or even killed by vaccines."

For those of us who find ourselves a #oneissuevoter for #HealthFreedom, Carson doesn't make the cut.

January 09, 2015

MPVR Lobby day at the capitol yesterday was AMAZING. We had a great crowd of activists and it is apparent that we are being heard! Let's ride this wave of momentum and get this done!

Please do NOT wait for someone else to do the work we need YOU to do. It is going to take all of us. The medical community is pushing back HARD, but we are the voters...they can only listen if we are in their ear.

We need EVERYONE making calls to the representatives on the Education Committee. We expect that our bill will be brought up in committee. We need a majority vote to make it onto the next step which is a vote on the house floor.

Our bill author, Representative Mark Formby has asked that we get 16+ cosponsors out of the Education Committee to make certain it passes! That is our priority at this time.

How do we meet that goal?

...We need YOU calling & asking for their support. If/when you have that; ask them to go to the clerk's office and sign on to House Bill 130 then, notify MaryJo and I or your regional director in the appropriate facebook group.

You can text details: lindey: 601.3four1.4359maryjo: 601.5four0.1665

Use our talking points and confidently call them! Our legislation is being talked about; they expect to hear from us. As we approach the weekend, this is an excellent time to call them at home!

Tips:• Focus first on those who represent your district if that applies to any of these • Work on to the others focusing on those who have not yet committed to cosign• Be kind and gracious; stick to the talking points. :)

Begin with any of these who are your representatives and let them know you are their constituent, but call as many as you can. If you don't reach them, leave a message letting them know you are seeking support of HB130 and would like them to return your call. If you don't hear back from them please call again later or the next day. Persistence is key :)

If you haven't signed our petition yet please do that. Link is at the top of the blog. Please also share it via facebook and email!

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Our lobby day at the capitol was fantastic. We are hearing that the vaccine rights legislation is being discussed much and are so pleased to see that there is copious support, just as there was last year in the house. Knowing our bill has the opportunity to be heard in committee has provided us the hope and ambition to really fight for it's success.

Leading up to the event, MaryJo had two radio interviews; she was fantastic!

Our bill's author is a true champion for this important legislation! Representative Formby met with some of us Thursday morning to discuss our legislation.

We have some precious mascots that are so worth fighting for!

A few more from the day...

As the mother of a vaccine injured child who has been bullied by the MSDH, our Lauren being brave and sharing her story during speaker Gunn's ideas tour made quite the impression on representative Bill Kincade.

We had several men at the capitol this year fighting for our cause; here are just a few of them.

Warriors going to battle.

Romans 8:31: What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

You may need change for parking. We will update with other parking details.

Initially, we will meet in the lobby of the Capitol near the steps in the rotunda between 9 and 9:30 a.m. There is a table reserved for us in the rotunda at 12:30 where we will be giving out information to our legislators as they come and go and also provide coffee and baked goods.

We are planning to also have a rally on the capitol steps sometime in late January or early February, so please check back for details.